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Lorenz Huber is a freelance videographer based in Istanbul and Zurich. Over the last ten years, he has developed himself from a corporate shooter in Switzerland to an international news and documentary cameraman and editor working with a range of different networks and newspapers like CNN International, the New York Times or Eurosport. 

While constantly working as a freelancer he also did a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Communications at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. After finishing his studies in 2017 he spent half a year in Tajikistan to shoot reports for the Swiss Caritas and then relocated to China where he stayed from 2018 to 2021. In his three years in East Asia, he intensively covered topics like the suppression of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, the massive protests in Hong Kong, and of course the Corona Virus. During this time Lorenz started to diversify from news coverage into documentaries, working together with the BBC's Panorama or with Arte on various projects.

In late 2021 Lorenz Huber returned to Europe and then after a quick stop in Buenos Aires set his focus on the Middle East. In the spring of 2022, he relocated to Istanbul where he started to work closely together with the CNN International Bureau, shooting news, features, and business for the network. This included the intense monthlong coverage of the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake, which struck in early 2023 and was the most deadly quake to hit the region in modern history. Together with the CNN team, Lorenz was also among the first foreign reporters to get access to the opposition-held region of Northwest Syria, where they reported on the impact of the disaster on the already war-torn Idlib province and its people.

Yevgeny Savin is the current president of independent Russian football club Krasava. Savin has openly spoken out against Russia and the war in Ukraine, standing in solidarity with Ukranians. In this episode of The Power of Sport, he speaks about the importance of standing up for what you believe in.

Kyrgyzstan has the highest concentration of cleft children. Children born with a cleft between the lip and throat. This leads to a number of health and social problems. The Confidence Foundation tries to alleviate the suffering caused by this disease and to give these children a smile again.

India isn't necessarily famous for its success on the football pitch. The national sport is cricket. But on the backstreets and sandy pitches of Mumbai, something is simmering that could give new hope to India's football fanatics. Archi Patil is the face of India's street football movement. In his late teenage years, he quit his career as a professional footballer only to start a new one as a street footballer. His tricks brought him several world records and a win in "India's got Talent". A success that didn't stay unnoticed by big brands like Red Bull, Qatar Airways, or Manchester city who used the young trickster for advertising. Just like this Archi was flown into Qatar to perform his tricks in one of the country's new stadiums. A journey on which he would have never embarked if he stayed a regular football player in India.

Story by Antoine Védeilhé 

Edit by Thomas Blanc

The province of Xinjiang is home to the Uyghurs, a minority suppressed by the Chinese government. Experts estimate that more than a million Uyghurs have been detained in so-called reeducation camps where they are meant to become more "Chinese". It is said to be the biggest mass detention since World War II. Human rights groups have repeatedly warned of systematic torture and even sterilization of women in these camps. I've accompanied Sophia Yan, East Asia correspondent for the Telegraph on her trip to the region. During nine days we travelled to the sandy province to report on the current state of the crackdown. This is episode one of three: How the Chinese government systematically destroys the rich cultural and religious heritage of the Uyghurs. 

Episode two focuses on the internment camps and the new phase in China's crackdown on the Uyghurs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3_A2vRGqE&t=11s

And in episode three Sophia Yan speaks about what it's like to report from the region as a foreign journalist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLMSzh4ZZI&t=333

In the picturesque little town of Beypazarı, everything is about carrots. Beypazarı lies in the middle of vast fields, where around 60% of Turkey's carrots grow every year. In the town center, tourists can buy a wider range of carrot products like soap against wrinkles or carrot döner, or just take selfies in front of the huge carrot statue in the town center. 

For once it was not Beijing leading the list of China’s most popular tourist destinations during its national holiday, Golden Week. This year it was Wuhan attracting the biggest number of travelers. It is seen as honorable to visit the town and to support its economy which suffered so much under the long lockdown. From the epicenter of the pandemic to tourist hotspot, Wuhan came a long way. Months of propaganda created a national pride for the “hero city” that went through so much and managed to emerge (under the capable hands of the Communist Party of course) as a completely safe place for tourism.

For the Wall Street Journal’s piece about the national tourism to the former epicenter I visited Wuhan during the golden week. 

Story and Editing by Sharon Stone of the Wall Street Journal. 

Fixed by Jie Xiong

Photos of the vast protests in Hong Kong that erupted in 2019 after the announcement of an extradition bill with China. The protest soon became much more: A last and desperate cry for democracy from a city that was about to be swallowed by the power-hungry Chinese regime. 

In early 2020 COVID-19 kept most Shanghainese from leaving their houses. During the day the streets were nearly empty but at night the city turned into a ghost town.

Buzkashi – Tajikistan’s national sport. The few existing rules are quite simple. An undefined number of riders battles over a beheaded goat. Whoever manages to grab the goat and brings it to a designated zone wins. Then the next game starts. The boundaries of the playing field are open for interpretation. Who can spot the goat in the video?